Sharon Anne Young, 43, pleaded guilty to the charge of intentionally damaging property in Lithgow Local Court. 

The charges stemmed from damage to a Ferro Street unit on April 10. The real estate agent managing the property, Professionals Lithgow, contacted police after receiving text messages from Young stating that she would damage the property.

The messages followed a call from the agency the previous day indicating that her lease would be terminated in 30 days. 

Police were met at the unit door by Young, who showed officers the damage, which included holes in the walls and graffiti. She was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and ordered to pay $2895 in compensation to the real estate. 

A Yarrabin man forced to leave a bus at Wallerawang was found guilty of using offensive language in a public place and resisting an officer in the execution of his duty in Lithgow Local Court on July 5.

Michael Joseph Hundy, 54, told officers he had been drinking during the morning before he boarded a bus at Mudgee heading to Lithgow at about 3pm on May 7. 

Passengers soon started to complain to the bus driver that Hundy was talking loudly and using a lot of foul language. He was asked to lower his voice and cease swearing but did not. 

The driver stopped at Portland to call triple-zero and the bus was met on the corner of Barton and Cripps avenues in Wallerawang. He was ordered off by officers and, while he initially appeared to comply, the court heard he became more and more agitated until he was subdued with OC (capsicum) spray. He was arrested and taken to Lithgow Police Station. 

Hundy pleaded guilty to the charges and was ordered to pay an $800 fine. 

Three people were found guilty of assault, after an incident at Cullen Bullen on February 10 this year. 

Two men, a 45-year old and 32-year-old, and a 48-year-old woman were found guilty in Lithgow Local Court on July 13.

The court heard the 30-year-old victim of the assault was hit in the face by Jason Colin Ridges, 32, during an argument at about 5.15pm on February 10. The victim left the premises and sat near Cullen Bullen Primary School grounds. 

The court heard Barry Phillip Earsman, 45, of Dubbo and Donna Lee Ridges of Cullen Bullen found the victim there and another argument began. A witness contacted the police, stating punches had been thrown. 

Earsman was fined $500 for common assault, while Donna Ridges was placed on an 18-month good behaviour bond. Jason Ridges was fined $250 and placed on a 12 month good behaviour bond. 

Littleton man Ronald Joseph Byrnes, 53, was fined $300 for drug possession in Lithgow Local Court on July 5. 

He was charged after he was found with 0.1 gram of methylamphetamine (ice) when he was searched by police at the intersection of Tweed Road and Page Street, Lithgow, on May 24. 

A 56-year-old Lithgow man was fined $600 after he was pulled over driving without ever having held a licence. 

Michael John Mativ was pulled over by highway patrol at Meadow Flat on February 13. 

Mativ was also convicted in Lithgow Local Court on July 5 on a separate charge of possessing a prohibited drug. He was visiting a house on Page Street, Bowenfels, on May 31 when police carried out a search of the premises. 

He was found to be in possession of 13 grams of cannabis and was fined $500.